This is my kind of story about the power of peace buttons:
In one North Carolina city, authorities decided it might be too dangerous to give peace a chance.
News outlets report Interstate 240 in Asheville and a bridge over it were closed for about 10 minutes Thursday while police removed two round button-like objects reading “peace” from underneath the bridge.
About 1 foot (0.3 meters) across, the objects were made of a Styrofoam-like material, painted red and gray, and attached with magnets to the steel beams underneath the bridge on the northbound and southbound spans.
The Citizen-Times quotes Lt. Joseph Sorrells as saying authorities assumed the objects didn’t pose a threat, but they shut down traffic “to err on the side of caution.” He said the objects were harmless.
The road closures caused significant backups on I-240, and a preschool was placed on lockdown.
I have been known and unknown to skulk about in similar such peacemongering activities. When peace breaks out in such small ways, may we not be so afraid.
Please feel free to browse my many hundreds of peace sign designs, from simple to psychedelic.
